Children Quote by Oliver Heaviside Download Open image “Euclid for children is barbarous.” — Oliver Heaviside ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Euclid
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect for checking… — George Polya Copy Share Image
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle… — Catharine Cox Miles Copy Share Image
“Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would never have… — David Klass Copy Share Image
We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved? — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it, and a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
